NEW YORK (US) – The US government on Wednesday said it will start distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine after one day of regulatory authorisation.
Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense on Wednesday released documents related to how they have planned the distribution that it would be sending to the states and local public health officials.
Allocation of vaccines by the federal government would be made for each state and would be done based on the critical populations, which has gotten the recommendation first for vaccination by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This group is likely to include essential healthcare workers.
The document, called the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook, said that “limited COVID-19 vaccine doses may be available by early November 2020 if a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized or licensed by FDA by that time, but COVID-19 vaccine supply may increase substantially in 2021.”